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Also Known As Mark Aleksandrovich Landau
Born November 7, 1889 • Kyiv • Russian Empire
Died February 25, 1957 (aged 67) • Nice • France
Notable Works “The Fifth Seal” • “The Thinker”
Nina Berberova
Russian-American writer
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Merezhkovsky
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Russian author
Andrey Donatovich Sinyavsky
Russian writer
Yevgeny Petrov
Soviet humorist
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev
Russian writer and scholar
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Russian author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Russian author
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russian author
Valentin Katayev
Soviet writer
Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov
Russian author
Aleksey Mikhaylovich Remizov
Russian writer
Peretz Markish
Russian writer
Karamzin, portrait by V.A. Tropinin, 1815; in the State Literature Museum, Moscow
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Karamzin
Russian author
Fyodor Abramov
Russian writer
Viktor Shklovsky
Soviet author
Goncharov
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
Russian writer
Ratushinskaya, Irina Georgiyevna
Irina Georgiyevna Ratushinskaya
Russian poet, essayist and dissident
Chernyshevsky, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist
N.G. Chernyshevsky
Russian journalist
Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov
Russian author